BACKGROUND Tobacco smoke exposure (TSE) is unequivocally harmful to children's health, yet up to 48% of children who visit the pediatric emergency department (PED) and urgent care setting are exposed to tobacco smoke. The incorporation of clinical decision support systems (CDSS) into the electronic health records (EHR) of PED patients may improve the rates of screening and brief TSE interventio...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Worldwide, roughly 40% of children are exposed to the damaging and sometimes deadly effects of tobacco smoke. Interventions aimed at reducing child tobacco smoke exposure (TSE) have shown mixed results. The objective of this study was to perform a systematic review and meta-analysis to quantify effects of interventions aimed at decreasing child TSE. METHODS Data sourc...

Oman depends on recycling treated wastewater as a solution to overcome the limited water supply. However, the risk of reusing recycled sewage water in the environment and public health is a major concern. Tertiary sewage treated effluent (TSE) was evaluated microbiologically from three sewage treatment plants (STPs). Mainly, all TSE from the three plants contained coliform and Escherichia coli....

Human transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) encompass a group of rare neurodegenerative diseases. In April 2004, a group of international experts and regulators met in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to review the safety and to reach consensus on the use of urinary-derived gonadotrophins with respect to TSE. Iatrogenic transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) from pituitary-derived go...

INTRODUCTION AND MOTIVATION: A common assumption in literature is that fast / turbo spin echo sequences (FSE/TSE) do not demonstrate any distinct diffusion weighting, since the permanent refocusing of magnetization does not lead to noticeable diffusion effects. This statement, however, does actually refer to standard TSE imaging with 180° refocusing pulses. The use of low refocusing flip angles...

WE believe that the role of TSE is to serve and connect the growing international community of software engineering researchers and practitioners. The TSE editorial board has continued to uphold the high standard of quality that has been a hallmark of the journal since its inception. In addition, we have worked in a number of areas to provide more timely and more visible content for the communi...

OBJECTIVES To provide a fast protocol for MR imaging of the TMJ with high contrast resolution of both soft tissue and joint fluid. METHODS A fast turbo-spin echo (TSE) pulse sequence was developed. The new technique was compared with T1W conventional spin echo (CSE) and T2W TSE sequences in imaging 57 TMJs in 50 patients. Disc location and contour and bone delineation were assessed on three i...

BACKGROUND The study of P transposable element repression in Drosophila melanogaster led to the discovery of the Trans-Silencing Effect (TSE), a homology-dependent repression mechanism by which a P-transgene inserted in subtelomeric heterochromatin (Telomeric Associated Sequences, "TAS") has the capacity to repress in trans, in the female germline, a homologous P-lacZ transgene located in euchr...

Abstract Due to the severe shortage of water resources, more than 33.3% treated sewage effluent (TSE) is used for agricultural irrigation in China. There are significant advantages using drip TSE. However, it still not known how TSE influences soil environment. It that technical parameters determine distribution and have a substantive effect on environment, while magnitude these impacts depends...